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MEMBER BLOG TAG: virgil

Saturday, May 2, 2009 8:21AM
 
Readings from around the Globe
Tags: poetry, Virgil, gravity, zebrasm conjectures
 
What a menu! The range of tones and places, of subjects and genres was mind-boggling. And mind-enhancing.

Tabucchi's conjectures: "The protagonist of the story we have lived is not us. It's the story we lived." Enough in that story and conjecture and readeriness to last a while: "All the rest is conjecture.. but that's your problem, not mine." Superior practice of best kind of theorizing -- not in your face, but your mind.

All of us loved Atxaga's poems, all, especially about the Zebra and the counting, and the running -- to make up the gap between 24 and 26... unforgettable, like the cry: "Crocodiles, crocodiles, crocodiles...". This was poetry as poetry, truly amazing.

The beauty of Sada's calling out to...
 
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